Scientists have captured a rare hunting behaviour in rats for the first time. The rodents were filmed catching and eating ...

Scientists have recreated the genome of the Christmas Island rat, which went extinct more than 100 years ago. But about 5% of the rat's genetic makeup could not be recreated, which means if the animal ...

The continued coexistence of ecologically similar species relies on niche separation in space or time. Four similar species of introduced rodent occur in New Zealand, but the mechanism(s) allowing ...

A team of scientists recently modeled the likelihood of hauling a species back from dead, using the Christmas Island rat, a large rodent that went extinct between 1902 and 1908, as their hypothetical ...

The phenomenon known as a "rat spill" takes place when a ship carrying rats docks at, or sinks near, an island previously rat-free. The rats come ashore by way of the gangplanks and ropes tied to the ...

Brown rats are seen on video for the first time ever hunting bats systematically, doing so by stalking the flying mammals ...